v_public_cross_tradition_links: 89

The comparative-religion core — every link where one tradition's figure is received, syncretised, equated, or recognised as a cognate of another tradition's (reception_of, received_as, syncretized_with, identified_with, equated_with, aligned_with, cult_form_of). 1,006 connections across the religions of the ancient and late-antique world.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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rowid	entity	tradition	relationship_type	linked_entity	linked_tradition	confidence	rationale	source_id
89	Perkūnas	Baltic	aligned_with	Thor	Germanic/Norse	high	Perkūnas and Thor are cognate thunder deities: both wield the thunder weapon against a serpentine or giant antagonist, both protect the ordered world from chthonic chaos. The PIE *perkʷ- (oak/thunder) root and the structural myth parallel are well established. Gimbutas (1963) p. 199; Greimas (1992) pp. 77-84.	SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN